Deepa Bhasthi is a writer and translator based in Karnataka. Her areas of research interest include sociolinguistics, land versus landscape, and food politics. She occasionally works on visual art projects. Her articles have appeared extensively in publications like ArtReview, Literary Hub, The Guardian, Hyperallergic, MOLD, and Atlas Obscura, to mention a few. Bhasthi won the Pen Present Award for her translation of Banu Mushtaq`s short story collection, Haseena and Other Stories, from Kannada.
Kannada in Indian Literature-Translation and Its Possibilities